Changes in the Beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses

CHART OF SOME OF THE MAJOR CHANGES IN WATCHTOWER DOCTRINE

“It is a serious matter to represent God and Christ in one way, then find that our understanding of the major teachings and fundamental doctrines of the Scriptures was in error, and then after that, to go back to the very doctrines that, by years of study, we had thoroughly determined to be in error. Christians cannot be vacillating— ‘wishy-washy’ — about such fundamental teachings. What confidence can one put in the sincerity or judgment of such persons?” —The Watchtower, May 15, 1976, p. 298

Testimony of Fred Franz of the Watchtower Society at a 1954 Trial in Scotland:

QUESTION: So that what is published as the truth today by the Society may have to be admitted to be wrong in a few years?ANSWER: We have to wait and see.QUESTION: And in the meantime the body of Jehovah’s Witnesses have been following error?ANSWER: They have been following misconstructions on the Scriptures.QUESTION: Error?ANSWER: Well. error.”—Douglas Walsh Trial, 1954, p. 114

EPHESIANS 4:14-15: “As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, and craftiness in deceitful scheming…”